Cloud Infra Team Lead — DevOps, SRE, Multi-Cloud

Loft Orbital; Toulouse; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO up to 35 days

Health and life insurance

Lunch vouchers

Cross‑office travel to Toulouse

Relocation to Toulouse

Team off-sites

Job summary

Loft Orbital is seeking a hands-on Team Lead for Cloud Infrastructure in Toulouse. You will lead a skilled group of cloud engineers responsible for the ground segment powering our constellation.

You’ll shape the cloud strategy, promote DevOps and SRE best practices, and mentor the team to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure. You will partner with Software, Security, Satellite Operations, and Mission teams to ensure mission‑critical capabilities meet evolving requirements.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience managing and scaling high‑performing cloud infrastructure or SRE teams.
• Hands‑on experience running team ceremonies (daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives) and ensuring effective Agile practices.
• Define and communicate the cloud infrastructure mission, vision, and goals aligned with Loft Orbital’s business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of cloud infrastructure engineers.
• Own and run daily team operations, including standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and sync meetings.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, psychological safety, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Define and communicate the team’s mission aligned with Loft Orbital’s objectives.
• Champion DevOps/SRE mindset across the company focusing on reliability, scalability, and security.
• Set and drive the cloud infrastructure strategy for secure, scalable, and cost-effective systems.
• Oversee multi‑cloud solutions (AWS, GCP, Azure) for satellite operations.
• Champion IaC, cloud automation, and observability; CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Cloud leadership

DevOps culture

SRE practices

Agile delivery

Public cloud

AWS

GCP

Azure

IaC

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Python

Go

Communication

Leadership

Security

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Python

Go

Job description

Loft Orbital is seeking a hands-on Team Lead for Cloud Infrastructure in Toulouse. You will lead a skilled group of cloud engineers responsible for the ground segment powering our constellation.

You’ll shape the cloud strategy, promote DevOps and SRE best practices, and mentor the team to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure. You will partner with Software, Security, Satellite Operations, and Mission teams to ensure mission‑critical capabilities meet evolving requirements.